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Ringfort - cashel

Glasha Beg, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Glasha Beg, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glasha Beg
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03539, -9.37309
SMR number
CL008-011----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In a flat field of coarse pasture and scrub, with limestone paving to the N, within a relict local field system (CL008-004001-) and a larger multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Marked on Robinson's (1977) map. This possible cashel (int. dims. 24.5m NW-SE; 20.5m NE-SW), subrectangular in plan, is defined by a platform (H 0.35-1.1m). A few stone uprights at SW suggest the remains of a stone revetment, while along SE several lengths of a single course of revetting can be seen. It has nearly been scraped away at NW. A house site (CL008-011003-) occupies the centre of the interior and the remains of a possible souterrain (CL008-011002-) are visible to its NE. A circular depression (diam. 3.5m) is visible outside the site, c. 5m to the SE and there is a possible hut site (CL008-151----) c. 23m to the SSE. Two other cashels (CL008-010---- and CL008-012----) lie c. 73m to the NW and c. 96m to the NNE respectively.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL008-011----_01 (centre forerground) view from E
CL008-011----_02 (centre foreground) view from SE

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 22 August 2022

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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